WANTED HER CHILD ARRESTED.
Because She Played in Street, Having
No Other Place to Play.
The great necessity for a playground in the North end was shown by an incident which took place at police headquarters last night. A mother, greatly incensed and trembling with anger, appeared at the station pushing before her a little girl of 11 years. She was crying bitterly and protesting.
"I have told you I would do it and I am going to keep my word," said the mother. Then to Sergeant Patrick Clark she said: "I want this girl locked up. She will play on the streets when I have told her not to."
"I haven't got any place else to play," said the little girl, between sobs.
"Where do you live?" asked the sergeant kindly, as he placed his arm about the child's back.
"At Missouri avenue and Main," she said, calming a little.
"How long have you lived there?" she was asked.
"All my life," she replied.
"Where else can the child play but on the street?" Clark asked the mother. "You take her home now and both of you enter into a bargain. You give this little girl so much time every day to play. All children have got to play or else they are not children. And you, little one, when your mother gives you a certain hour in which to play, will you come in when the time is up? There, I knew you would. Now both of you go home.
Mother and daughter left the station arm in arm.
